{"id":28984,"date":"2026-11-06T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/?p=28984"},"modified":"2026-11-06T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T01:06:50","slug":"us-justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-aside-disputed-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/06\/us-justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-aside-disputed-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"US Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to dismiss its own lawsuit that aimed to stop California from processing up to 20,000 ballots it suspected were mailed to noncitizens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/us.headtopics.com\/news\/us-justice-department-drops-bid-to-force-california-to-set-89629696\" target=\"_blank\">Go to story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Justice Department drops bid to force California to set aside disputed ballots The U.S. Department of Justice has moved to dismiss its own lawsuit that aimed to stop California from processing up to 20,000 ballots it suspected were mailed to noncitizens. Go to story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1885,2459,717,548,2827,2418],"class_list":["post-28984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1885","tag-ballots","tag-california","tag-department-of-justice","tag-lawsuit","tag-u-s-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28986,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28984\/revisions\/28986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragons-web.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}